How Proxy Hacking Can Hurt Your Rankings & What To Do About It

Google Proxy Hacking: How A Third Party Can Remove Your Site From Google SERPs by Dan Thies gives us a detailed look at the serious dangers of proxy hacking. Dan’s detailed article shows the history on how he discovered the issue. He then goes into why the hacking currently works in Google. Dan is eager […]

Google Proxy Hacking: How A Third Party Can Remove Your Site From Google SERPs by Dan Thies gives us a detailed look at the serious dangers of proxy hacking.

Dan’s detailed article shows the history on how he discovered the issue. He then goes into why the hacking currently works in Google. Dan is eager to encourage the search engines to do something about the issue. But Dan has provided details on how to help protect yourself with the help of some friends.


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Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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